Monday in Art Marketing Tips - One of the best ways to attract visitors to your new art blog or portfolio website is to write "guest posts" for established blogs. Tomorrow I’ll take you through a step-by-step guide to guest-writing—as you might expect, there’s more to. . . read more
For a while now I’ve been hosting special art and music events to incorporate my love of painting with my love of jazz. It’s worked out quite well as a marketing tool for my work (free press, lots of word-of-mouth, etc) and I usually end up selling a few paintings each time.. . . read more
The other day someone asked me how to market their cat and dog calendars. Well I'm an animal artist, too, and my best answer is one that I learned while working in animal rescue: partnerships.. . . read more
Each one of Paul’s paintings contains amazingly textured, nearly sculptural, elements. They’re full of ridges and lines, canvas texture and piles of paint. . . all of which are working to either conceal or reveal the physical and emotional state of the subject.. . . read more
Repoussoir (pronounced reh-poo-swahr) has been used for centuries by artists who want to focus attention and add interest to their art. It's a fairly simple technique, and effective enough that many artists use it today, too.. . . read more
As I sat down to write this last article in my series on overcoming fear, I had to laugh at myself for putting this one off until the very end. Because this fear - the fear of the unknown - is one of mine.. . . read more
Monday in Motivation - Tomorrow I’ll be wrapping up my series on fear by posting my fourth and final article: Overcoming the Fear of the Unknown. It’s another good one for any amateur or hobby artists thinking about making the jump to professional.
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Few of us have the opportunity to live in (or near) an artistic mecca like Paris or New York City, and as working artists it’s easy to see the disadvantages to that. But while living rurally does pose some obstacles for the ambitious artist, there can actually be great advantages too.. . . read more
For those of us who don’t have the money or time to get a higher education in art, how close can we get to an art degree through free resources? In each of my upcoming articles I’ll be sharing a lot of free art resources (most of them online) and explaining how to use them.. . . read more
As I browsed through Darko's web gallery, there were two things that captivated me most about his art: first, the intense (almost physical) atmosphere in all his paintings; and second, the sparse, simple use of subject matter.. . . read more
In the diagram seen here, a rectangle has been divided horizontally and vertically by four lines. The rule of thirds states that the centers of interest for any rectangle lie somewhere along those lines.. . . read more